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Protogenesis
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 2 2026
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the planet Aretz, order is absolute. There is no night, no disorder, no uncertainty the governing Net cannot resolve. Iron flows through the world like memory made solid - optimised, disciplined, eternal. At the centre of it all sits Yilwe, the God-Emperor, architect of a civilisation that has eliminated chaos by design.
But something has begun to fail.
Not through violence. Not through revolt. Through forgetting.
As iron itself starts to lose its coherence - softening, dissolving, quietly unmaking the structures that depend upon it - the Net encounters something it was never built to understand: change without lineage, failure without cause, matter that no longer remembers what it is supposed to be.
From the highest sanctums of planetary authority to the improvised depths of the lower strata, engineers, ministers, dissidents, and gods alike are forced to confront a reality their civilisation has long denied: that optimisation is not permanence, and control is not comprehension.
At the heart of the crisis stands a former architect of the system - a rebel who knows its assumptions intimately, and who has discovered how to break it without opposing it. Alongside him are figures caught between loyalty and doubt, including Yesha, the God-Emperor's chosen adjutant, engineered to stand adjacent to absolute power and now faced with the possibility that power itself may be incomplete.
Protogenesis is a cerebral, mythopoeic science-fiction novel that blends philosophical depth with systemic suspense. It explores themes of technological absolutism, emergent failure, memory, authority, and the fragile boundary between order and life. Rich in atmosphere and ideas, it asks a haunting question:
What happens when a civilisation built on perfect memory encounters something that cannot be remembered?
For readers of philosophical science fiction, systems-driven worldbuilding, and quiet, intelligent catastrophe, Protogenesis offers a profound and unsettling vision of how worlds end - not with fire, but with erosion.
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